Please find enclosed the program of the Conference "Exploring the micro history of the Holocaust" that will take place in Paris on December 5-7, 2012.

Ivan Ermakoff

Professor

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sociology Department

Conference: Exploring the micro history of the holocaust, December 5-7, 2012, Paris

Over the past years, numerous surveys adopting a micro perspective applied to different terrains of investigation have enhanced our understanding of the holocaust. Focusing on family trajectories, deportation convoys, the histories of a ghetto, a camp, a city or a region, these studies aim to provide a local contribution to the national and European edifice of the history of the holocaust. The purpose of this international conference is to engage and compare the methods deployed in these studies, to investigate the specificity of the scale of observation thus adopted and to assess how the choice of a micro scale contributes to our macro comprehension of the history of the holocaust.

10h15 Melissa Jane Taylor (Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State), The Katz Family’s Escape: A Micro History Examined

10h30 Liora Israël (EHESS-CMH), Injured identities. The Paths of Three Jewish lawyers in Occupied France analyzed through their diaries

Break: 11h15-11h45

11h45-13h00 Reflecting upon group boundaries (Chair-discussant: Claire Zalc, CNRS-IHMC)
11h45 Kenneth Waltzer (Michigan State University), Moving Together, Moving Alone: The Story of Boys on a Transport from Auschwitz to Buchenwald

12h00 Henriette Rika Benveniste (University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece), For a micro history of camp survivors: The Salonika Jews in Feldafing

12h15 Alina Skibinska (USHMM, Washington D.C. and Polish Center for Holocaust Research, Polish Academy of Sciences), Fate of the Jews in the small town of Szczebrzeszyn during the years 1939-1945

14h45 Ingo Loose (Institute of Centemporary History Munich-Berlin), Ghettos as microcosms. Pictures taken by Jewish photographers as a source to the Holocaust
15h00 Katarzyna Person (The Center for Jewish History, New York), Jewish Police in the Warsaw Ghetto. Microhistory of the margins

Thursday, December 6, 2012: Mémorial de la Shoah
Face-to-face: victims and perpetrators
9h00. Welcome of the participants
9h30-10h00 Keynote presentation by Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa) « New methodological perspectives in micro-research on the Shoah »
10h00-12h00 Interactions (Chair-discussant Florent Brayard, EHESS-CRH)
10h00 Froukje Demant (University of Amsterdam), Living in abnormal normality? The daily relations of Jews and non-Jews in the German-Dutch border region during the Third Reich

11h00 Judit Molnar (University of Szeged, Hungary), “Everyone has an equal right to life”. Gendarmes saving Jews among gendarmes deporting Jews in 1944

Lunch break: 12h00-13h30

13h30-14h45 Face-to-face (Chair-discussant Tal Bruttmann, Ville de Grenoble)
13h30h Tomasz Frydel (University of Toronto), A Historical Forensics of Jewish Refugees in Mielec County: Toward a Social History of Rescue

13h45 Vladimir Solonari (University of Central Florida), On the Persistence of Moral Judgment: Local Perpetrators in the Districts of Golta and Berezovca, Transnistria as Seen by the Victims, Bystanders, and Perpetrators Themselves

Arrests, executions, acts of killing
15h15-16h30 Acts of killing (Chair-discussant Christian Ingrao, CNRS-IHTP)
15h15 Markus Roth (University of Giessen), The Murder Of The Jews In Ostrów Mazowiecka In November 1939

15h30 Alexandru Muraru (Alexandru Ioan Cuza university of Iasi, Romania), The first Massacres of Jews in the Romanian Holocaust. Level of Decision, Genocidal Strategy and Killing Methods in the Dorohoi and Galati Pogroms (June-July, 1940)

17h00 Johann Chapoutot (University Grenoble II-Institut Universitaire de France), German sanitary action and the Jews living in the General Government: biomedical imaginary and the legitimization of Nazi crimes

17h15 Barbara Engelking (Polish Academy of Sciences), Dreams in the times of the Shoah

17h30 Amos Goldberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Rumors in the Warsaw Ghetto: A case study in the Cultural History of the Jews in the Holocaust

10h15 Diana Dumitru (Moldova State Pedagogical University Ion Creanga), To Trust or Not to Trust? An Analysis of Soviet Postwar Investigation and Trial Documents for the History of the Holocaust

10h30 Andrew Kornbluth (University of California, Berkeley), “There Are Many Cains Among Us” Judging Wartime Crimes Against Jews at the Regional Courts of Warsaw and Siedlce in Poland, 1946-1949

Break: 11h30-11h45

11h45-13h00 New collections, new sources (Chair-discussant Sophie Coeuré, Université Paris-Diderot)
11h45 Diane Afoumado (USHMM, Washington, DC), How can we use the ITS collection to shed light on the history of the Holocaust?

12h Stefan Ionescu (Clark University), The Challenges of Assessing the Sabotage of Aryanization (Romanianization) in World War II Bucharest: Sources and Interpretations

12h15 Marta Janczewska (Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and
the Polish Center for Holocaust Research), Medical documents as a source to The Warsaw ghetto history studies

Lunch Break: 13h – 14h30

14h30-16h15 The relationship to testimonies (Chair-discussant Annette Wieviorka, CNRS-IRICE)
14h30 Elissa Mailander (Centre d’histoire de Sciences-po), A multitude of witnesses: probing the memory of a hanging in the Maïdanek camp (1943)

15h00 Hannah Pollin-Galay (Tel Aviv University), To Accuse, To Chronicle or to Compare? Micro-History through the Eyes of the Witness: A Case Study of Lithuanian Jewish Testimony
15h15 Joanna Michlic (Brandeis University and International History Department, LSE), The Symbolic Categorization of Dedicated Polish Women Rescuers, as Violators of the Ethno-Nationalistic Cultural Code and its Everyday Practice, During the Second World War and its Aftermath

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